Rape allegations recently resurfaced about Parker, who wrote, directed and will star in the upcoming "The Birth of a Nation"

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Actors Nate Parker speaking at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's grants banquet in Beverly Hills, California on August 4, 2016. He told Ebony magazine he sought guidance on "feminist movement and toxic masculinity" after the press began discussing a 1999 rape allegation made against him.

Nate Parker, the actor-director dealing with a 17-year-old rape case casting a storm over his new film and career, opened up about the incident in a new interview.

Parker spoke about understanding his male privilege and the definition of consent in a lengthy interview Friday with Ebony magazine in Los Angeles. Earlier this month, the Hollywood trade press began to run stories about a 1999 rape allegation made against Parker when he was a student at Penn State University.

Parker wrote, directed and will star in "The Birth of a Nation," out in October. The film, about Nat Turner and the slave rebellion, is already generating Oscar buzz.

"I called a couple of sisters that (I) know that are in the space that talk about the feminist movement and toxic masculinity, and just asked questions. What did I do wrong? Because I was thinking about myself. And what I realized is that I never took a moment to think about the woman," he told Ebony he did after his first pair of interviews. "I didn't think about her (the accuser) then, and I didn't think about her when I was saying those statements, which was wrong and insensitive."

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Though Parker was acquitted, his college roommate and "Birth" collaborator Jean Celestin was initially found guilty of sexual assault. Celestin appealed and it was later overturned when the accuser declined to testify for a retrial.

"The Birth of a Nation" will be released Oct. 7. It had won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival.